Will travel for the right leaf.Floral design, houseplant styling and pineapple-level hospitality. Queer energy. Always growing.
Twenty years in four-star dining rooms taught me one thing: people remember how a room made them feel. So I fill rooms with things that are alive.
Three things, done with the same hands and the same standard: the one you pick up after two decades at Del Posto, Pendry and Wolfgang Puck, then let loose in a garden.
Weddings, restaurant installs, dinner parties, weekly refreshes. Proteas with attitude, boutonnières with personality. Drama in the vase, zero drama in the process.
Homes, yards, patios, offices. Plant selection, placement, potting and the care plan so they actually survive you.
Event production and service training from someone who ran the room at the highest level. From the Porsche Experience Center to your backyard.
A squeeze keeps bacteria down and blooms up. Fresher, longer, free.
Sunflowers for sunshine. Gerberas for pop. Mums and roses for body. Eucalyptus for volume. Every stem has a job.
A grocery-store haul and one good vase beats a $300 arrangement nobody touches. Bang for your bloom.
Hands on flowers by sunrise, fingers in dirt before noon. Rotate, prune, water, repeat. Plants notice.
If you travel, you get a snake plant. If you hover, you get a fern. I will be honest about which one you are.
The Daddy
Cornell Hotelie. Twenty years of luxury hospitality: Del Posto, Pendry, Wolfgang Puck, The Aster. Then I got sober, got honest, and started putting my hands in dirt for a living.
Now I design florals and plant spaces across Los Angeles, host like it’s a sport, and say the quiet part loud. Being real is the superpower. The outfits are just the uniform.
On air · Top Host 2026 finalist
A little bit of life, a little bit of laughter, some honest conversations about sobriety, service and gratitude, and a whole lot of sunshine. Tyler is competing in Top Host 2026 for the chance to launch it with iHeartRadio. You can vote once a day, free. Donation votes benefit the Ryan Seacrest Foundation.
Captions are his. Crops are math (see below). Hover for the accent colour pulled from each photo.
Each photo gets a salience map: local Shannon entropy on 16px cells (how much visual information is packed in), plus edge density, colour saturation and a hard bonus wherever a face is detected so no crop ever beheads Tyler. For every aspect ratio the page needs, we slide the largest fitting window over that map and keep the one with the highest mean salience, constrained to fully contain the face. The centroid of salience inside the crop becomes the CSS focal point, and a k-means pass on the crop gives the hover accent. Swap a photo in and the layout re-crops itself.
Tell me the room, the date and the vibe. I’ll bring the blooms, the plan and more energy than strictly necessary.